Re: Sending escape sequences to xterms via wall/talk
Evil Pete (shipley@merde.dis.org)
Thu, 21 Jul 1994 18:04:39 -0700
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>This makes sense if you think about it. Suppose I was running /bin/passwd,
>I had just entered in my password, and then passwd core dumped for some
>reason. The core image would have my clear text password stored in it.
Worse yet, a entire buffer or more from the shadow password file
may be extracted from the core, thus allowing you to circumvent
the "security" of the shadow passwd system
-Pete